Greta Rainbow writes about alt lit, breaking up, Depop, the Internet Archive, Greek mythology, sisters, translation...


Greta is an editor at The Creative Independent, an arts columnist for New York Review of Architecture, and lead contributor to Blank, a literary newsletter from Dirt Media.

She is Research Editor at BDG and fact-checks for independent authors and outlets. She also makes visual art.


Greta has worked for places like Cooper Hewitt, Harper’s, and New York Public Radio. She was a 2025 Writer-in-Residence at the Salzburger Kunstverein in partnership with SPIKE magazine.

She grew up in Seattle, attended McGill University in Montreal, and now lives in Brooklyn.


Greta is represented by Isabel Mendía at The Cheney Agency.

   



 greta.rainbow @ gmail.com

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Essay
The Atlantic
On The Summer I Turned Pretty, 2025

Review, Essay
Dirt
On Book of the Month and selling cool, 2026

On longevity bros, 2026

On magazines, 2025

On braided essays, 2025 | voted “A Story I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About” by Dirt readers

On Thomas Bernhard and his imitators, 2025

On igno-fiction, 2025

On literary scenes, 2025

On desire, AI, and a writing conference, 2025

On the fantasy of the serious novel, 2025 | translated to Czech and published by Revue Prostor

Scene report: Twombly at Gagosian, 2025

On My First Book, 2024 | voted “Funniest Story of the Year” by Dirt readers

On digital resting points, 2021

Review
Spike
On Women’s History Museum, 2025

After the Song of the Summer, 2025 | written as a Writer-in-Residence at the Salzburger Kunstverein

Fiction
Plank Skate Magazine
Can I make it any more obvious?, 2026

Interview
Filmmaker Magazine
On The Devil Wears Prada 2, 2026

An interview with Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2026


Essay
Cake Zine
72oz of Glory on the Livestream, 2026


Essay, Review, Fiction etc.Los Angeles Review of Books
Tourists, a short story, 2025

My Machine and Me, 2025 | guested on the culture podcast Tasteland

Pull the Red Thread: On Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera, 2024

VoiceNotesCore: On Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, 2023

Interview The Creative Independent
Over a dozen interviews between 2021-2025 with creatives including jewelry designer Georgia Kemball, musician Maria BC, author and translator Jennifer Croft, visual artist Jenson Leonard, and more.